When a pipeline attack threatened to fracture the Middle East's oil arteries, Saudi Arabia answered not with alarm but with adaptation, quietly rerouting its crude through Gulf terminals and steadying a market that had braced for worse. For four consecutive days, oil prices fell — Brent crude entering its longest losing streak in months, U.S. crude slipping beneath the symbolic $100 threshold — as traders absorbed both the kingdom's logistical resilience and the tentative diplomatic signals emerging from U.S.-Iran talks at the United Nations. In the long human story of energy and power, this m